Film and Video Circulation Policies

Undergraduate Student

• 3 days for DVD and VHS titles
• 3 days for Devil DVD titles
• 3 hours for reserve and yellow-box materials (building use only)
• Limit of 3 total DVD and VHS titles at one time
• Renewals must be brought in person to Lilly desk.

Graduate Student

• 3 days for DVD and VHS titles
• 3 days for Devil DVD titles
• 3 hours for reserve and yellow-box materials (building use only)
• Limit of 3 total DVD and VHS titles at one time
• Renewals must be brought in person to Lilly desk.
• Extended privileges are available; ask at the Lilly desk how to receive faculty borrowing privileges.

Faculty

• 3 days for DVD and VHS titles
• Reserve material may be checked out for classroom showings; please use this form.
• Limit of 3 total DVD and VHS titles at one time
• Renewals allowed

Staff

• 3 days for DVD and VHS titles
• 3 hours for reserve and yellow-box materials (building use only)
• Limit of 3 total DVD and VHS titles at one time
• Renewals must be brought in person to Lilly desk.

Outside Borrowers

• All video titles may be used in Lilly Library by eligible non-Duke patrons who have received borrowing privileges.
• To determine eligibility for borrowing, check the main library's Borrow and Renew page.
  
• Viewing stations and headphones are available within the building, for your use.

Video Returns

• All videos should be returned to Lilly Library during normal hours.
• To limit damages, please do not return videos to other libraries or send them in campus mail.

Fines

• Because of the high demand for videos, we enforce due dates and times with a fee of $5.00 per day for overdue materials for all patrons.
• Damaged or lost videos will result in a minimum $175 fine for replacement and processing; this includes a $150 replacement fee and a non-refundable $25 processing fee.
• If actual replacement costs exceed $150, the fine will be the actual replacement cost plus the processing fee.

Reserve Videos

• Faculty are encouraged to place videos they will assign to their students on reserve for the semester.  Use the reserve form.
• Reserve videos are identified with labels for the semester, and do not circulate outside the building, except to the professor who placed the film on reserve.
• Other faculty may use reserve films for class showings if they acquire the reserving faculty member's permission, or ask Lilly staff to obtain this permission.
• Reserve videos may be checked out by students for 3 hours and used in the library.

Limited Circulation Videos

• Lilly protects films that are frequently used in classes, are in a special collection, are expensive or rare.
• Limited circulation videos may be viewed in the building, but will circulate outside the building only to faculty and graduate students who have upgraded to faculty status.
• Videos in yellow boxes have limited circulation status; most users can check them out for 3 hours to use inside the library
  

 American Dance Festival

• Students and faculty may use VHS and DVD titles for 3 hours inside the library
• Faculty who wish to use a video in a course may request the video for a longer period, and for out-of-building use

TIP

• Students may use VHS and DVD titles for 3 hours inside the library
• Faculty and Staff have standard faculty and staff borrowing times and restrictions; see above.

Young Writer's Camp

• YWC students are not eligible to borrow videos
• YWC faculty and staff have borrowing privileges equivalent to their current borrowing status; see above.